The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State. (book reviews)

This is an interesting book on a topic of contemporary concern. The rise of various ethnic and religious movements, which are challenging traditional authorities in many countries of the Second and Third Worlds, has led to the fear that the West faces a new confrontation with various forms of religious fundamentalism.

The author does not like the term fundamentalism because it is pejorative, "is an imprecise category for making comparisons across cultures," and does not carry any political meaning. Instead, he contrasts what he prefers to call religious nationalism with ...

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